Nordic Shares Closed Up Thursday; Schibsted Series B Topped Leaders
November 23 2023 - 1:06PM
Dow Jones News
Stocks in the Nordic region gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index rising 0.6%.
Schibsted ASA Series B was the biggest leader during the
session, increasing 4.9%, and Corem Property Group AB Series A
gained 4.6%. Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB rounded out the top three
leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 4.1%.
Autostore Holdings Ltd. posted the largest decline, declining
5.8%, followed by Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. shares, which dropped
3.2%. Shares of NKT A/S dropped 3.2%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.7%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
increased 0.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.6%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 1.6%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
gaining 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index adding 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.2% from the
previous close.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.6%, while
Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.9%,
while gold futures were flat. Bitcoin slipped 0.6% to $37,224.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.1% to
98.36.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the U.S.
dollar was down 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona
was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.8%, the
euro was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, the Norwegian krone
was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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November 23, 2023 12:51 ET (17:51 GMT)
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